Ummmm, Tim, hate to break this to you, but I am pretty sure there is no problem with you posting in the Forums. Harlan banned you from the Pav, not from here.

I think you will find that the conversations here are a bit more to your liking than in the Pav.

Regardless, welcome back

oh, and Barber? You are Da MAN! (even if you ain't so humble)

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristrocratic forms. No gov't in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, gov't tends more and mroe to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class